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Microsoft Power Platform Enterprise Architecture

By : Robert Rybaric
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Microsoft Power Platform Enterprise Architecture

By: Robert Rybaric

Overview of this book

For forward-looking architects and decision makers who want to craft complex solutions to serve growing business needs, Microsoft Power Platform Enterprise Architecture offers an array of architectural best practices and techniques. With this book, you’ll learn how to design robust software using the tools available in the Power Platform suite and be able to integrate them seamlessly with various Microsoft 365 and Azure components. Unlike most other resources that are overwhelmingly long and unstructured, this book covers essential concepts using concise yet practical examples to help you save time. You’ll develop the skills you need to architect, design, and manage a complex solution as you follow the journey of a fictitious enterprise customer as they enter the world of Power Platform. Throughout the book, you’ll discover how to combine the functionality of Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents with various methodologies to effectively address application lifecycle management, security, and extensibility. Finally, you'll learn how to overcome common challenges in migrating data to and from Microsoft Power Platform using proven techniques. By the end of this book, you’ll have the strategic perspective of an enterprise architect to make accurate architectural decisions for your complex Power Platform projects.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Basics
4
Section 2: The Architecture
8
Section 3: Implementation

Presenting other Power Platform integrations

In this section, you will learn some details about additional integration for other Power Platform cloud services such as Power Virtual Agent, AI Builder, and Power BI. Power Virtual Agent and AI Builder are components that need to be integrated in any case since they cannot work standalone. Power BI is a very flexible analytical solution with several integration possibilities.

Power Virtual Agent and AI Builder

Power Virtual Agent and AI Builder are both Microsoft cloud services that provide the added value of a chatbot channel or artificial intelligence, which can be achieved in a low-code/no-code way. Both products cannot work standalone, so they must be integrated with other cloud services to benefit from those advanced capabilities.

Power Virtual Agent, as a chatbot solution, needs to be integrated into a publicly facing product to be available to customers. The product supports standard integration into the following channels...